My Personal Health Philosophy

Like many Americans of the baby boomer generation, I was raised on "Dr. Kildare" and "Marcus Welby." As a child, traditional medicine and the principles of drug treatment were at the center of my orientation to health and healing. As a child and young adult, it was with a limited view that I looked upon the subject of health. As I grew older, I would be introduced to revolutionary ideas about health and disease.

At twenty years of age, I sustained a severe back injury while on the job. I was lifting a 250-pound board and strained my lower back. Bedridden for weeks, I was barely able to walk. After seeing the best medical specialists in my area and suffering severe pain for over a year, as a last resort I made an appointment to see a chiropractor.

It would be under the care of Dr. Darald Bolin, a well known chiropractor, that I would be introduced to the 100-year-old healing philosophy known as "chiropractic." The chiropractic model of health, first developed by Daniel D. Palmer in 1895, centers around the concept that the human body is inherently designed to be healthy and to ultimately succeed in the process of survival. Dr. Bolin's treatment immediately relieved the chronic pain and started me on the road to recovery.

I built my personal health philosophy around chiropractic's healing theory because it worked for me when conventional methods failed.